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From the ashes of the Soviet empire, from the flames of history, rises
PROXY. Post 9/11 rave vibes cloaked in Muscovite angst. A line
drawn in smoking rubble along the border dividing East and West, Stussy
and Spetsnaz.

1997. The Year of Tar and Horses. The Prodigy plays Red Square in
Moscow. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the show, but only one is
truly changed. By the crushing sound. By people absolutely losing their
shit to synths and sustained aggression.

The experience causes PROXY to question the quality and purpose
of Russian "electrica" acts like Nu-Lag Xpressions and
Sweatislav. There was simply no scene from which to emerge. "Whatever
a fool does, he does it wrong. A poor dancer is impeded even by his own
balls," he recalls.

In a decade's time, PROXY would be remixing Prodigy and opening
for them on a massive tour of Russia.

2004. PROXY grows interested in the increasingly punishing sounds
of the electro scene, as he hears Tiga sing "Hey You Little Children
of Glasnost" at the W Hotel in Anzhero-Sudzhensk.

2006. PROXY reaches out to Tiga via his MySpace page. Thomas Von
Party intercepts the message and is stunned by fully formed landmines
like 'Destroy'. Masquerading as Tiga, he signs PROXY to
Turbo Recordings, beginning his own deceit-fueled ascent up the
biz-ladder of the music ladder-business.

2007 to present. PROXY earns respect and awe from such
heavyweights as Justice, Soulwax, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan and Mr.Oizo
with astonishing, severe tracks like 'Decoy', 'Dance in
Dark' and the massive 'Raven', which merits special mention
not just because of its ubiquity, but because it illustrates in full the
singular power of PROXY MUSIC.

Recall, if you will, the first time you were ever caught in an
explosion. Close enough to the blast that the only things that register
are a light beyond blinding and a sound that arrives too soon. Now
imagine that as you lose your body to the fire you are reassembled,
better, your self subsumed by something far greater (for many, this
experience seems to manifest itself as sitting in obedient unison). The
sound now commands you, transmuting you into the screaming, searing
blare.

PROXY has also produced remixes for Peaches, Prodigy, Tiga, Boys
Noize, Chromeo, Digitalism, Moby and a host of others willing to pay him
in Kocmoc cigarettes.

2013 the second part of his debut opus 'Music from the east block
Jungles' is released. An ongoing tour has led us into mid 2014 with a
debut release on Feed Me's 'Sotto Voce' imprint with '10,000' to
critical acclaim. The future is looking archaic.

"My music tells you what to do, but never why. Your ear may be
afraid, but your body completes its labour."